Wolfgang Martin Schede (11 May 1898 – 4 January 1975) was a German writer, dancer, actor, choreographer, artist and photographer.
[1]") He and his collaborators had no money, made their stage sets from leftover paper rolls, and rejected traditions.
[1] The first play was Toller's 1919 Die Wandlung (Transfiguration), performed three times and resulting in the town's demand to pay an entertainment tax (Vergnügungssteuer).
[1] Schede toured with recitations of poetry by Georg Trakl, Toller and Franz Werfel, and became interested in dance.
In 1923, he founded a dance school called Institut für ästhetische Körpererziehung (Institute for Aesthetic Body Education), planning to focus on psyche and body experience (... das Psychische des Tanzes, das Erlebnis des Körpers) as a way to enlighten and liberate the child-like soul (... für eine Erhellung und Befreiung der ganzen kindlichen Psyche machen).
A reviewer from an Essen paper wrote that Schede showed that he had used impulses from Sent M'ahesa and Mary Wigman, but in his own fresh way.